The 27-year-old Dubliner was found dead in his flat in Bromley on Monday, by his promoter Frank Maloney.

Dr Roy Palmer adjourned the hearing, to a date yet to be set, at Croydon Coroner's Court.

The Metropolitan Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
 

The Irishman, nicknamed "The Dazzler", won the bronze medal in Beijing 2008 in the middleweight division before turning professional last year under Maloney.
 

Maloney, 55 and a close friend of the boxer, was kept in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack upon finding the body of his rising star, but it was later revealed he may have suffered a minor attack some days before while ringside watching his fighter John McDermott lose on points to Tyson Fury.
 

Sutherland, who was tipped to go all the way in the super middleweight division, had won his first four professional fights and was due to step into the ring again next month.
 

He had lived with Maloney and his family for four months after moving from Navan in County Meath late last year before moving to his own flat in February.


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